Ecclesiastes Chapter Three

I paraphrase This Chapter three of Ecclesiastes, as there’s much to understand,
About the Fall of mankind, and the need for Salvation, to ‘See Heaven, and God.
I pray that I haven’t offended anyone with my understanding; You be the Judge.

Ecclesiastes Chapter Three
Paraphrased by Arley Steinhour 031518

To ‘Everything,’ there is a season,
And, a ‘Time’ to every ‘Purpose,’
[To all ‘things,’] under [God’s] heaven: (3:1
[to Ignore would be ‘Disservice.’]

A Time, to be born, and a Time to die;
A Time, to Plant, and, to Harvest the Planted, (3:2
A Time to kill, and to Heal; to break, and build [high], (3:3
A time to Weep, to Laugh, to Mourn and Dance [granted]; (3:4

A Time to cast away Stones, a Time, Stones, to gather;
A Time to Embrace, and, to Refrain from Embracing; (3:5
A Time to get, and to lose; a Time to Keep [or] Cast [Asunder];
A Time to rend, or sew; a Time to be silent, or speak; (3:7

There’s a Time to Love, and to Hate; a Time of War, and of Peace. (3:8
What Profit has he that Works, [which is his normal] Labors? (3:9
I’ve seen the ‘Travail,’ God has given to ‘Sons of Adam’ [each] (3:10
[As Sons Pursue the Falseness, of the Satan’s, Sin-filled, Favors].

God has made everything, Beautiful in His Time,
He has set the world in Man’s Heart, that none can find,
The ‘Whole,’ of what God Made, [from] ‘Beginning to End-of-Time,’
[After ‘Great White Throne Judgment,’ is ‘Day Eight Entwined.’

I know there’s no good in them, for [any] man to rejoice,
To do Good, in his life, [to all people he encounters], (3:12
And, [all men] should eat and drink, [and to give Praising Voice],
To enjoy the good of his labor, is a [True] Gift of God. (3:13

I know that whatsoever God does, shall be [Endlessly Here],
And, nothing can be Added, or Taken away, [from His Sway]:
As God does it, so men ‘Before Him,’ should with Fear; (3:14
[Abide in God’s Precepts, without ever going astray.]

That which has been, is now; and ‘now,’ already [spent],
As, God Requires, ‘that which is past,’ [need be repeated]. (3:15
And, moreover I saw under the Sun, the Place of Judgment,
Wickedness, Righteousness, and Iniquity, there, [completed]. (3:16

I said, in my heart, ‘God shall Judge,’ Righteousness and Wickedness:
As, there’s a time, for every purpose, and for Every Work. (3:17
I said in my heart, concerning the estate of the Sons of Adam [a Mess],
In that God manifest’s them, to know they’re Beasts, [gone berserk]. (3:18

That which befalls the ‘Sons of Adam,’ also befalls the beasts;
One thing befalls them all: ‘As one Dies, so-too Die the others;’
Yea, they all have ‘one breath;’ so man has no [Precedence],
Above a beast, for all is ‘Vanity,’ [and of Mortalities Druthers]. (3:19

All go to One Place; ‘[Being] From Dust, To Dust, Return.’ (3:20
Who knows the Spirit of Man, that, [upon death,] will go Upward,
And, the spirit of the beast, that will go downward, to the Earth? (3:21
[Where all, may have an Eternity, designed unto Own Kind Accord?]

Therefore, I perceive, there’s nothing better, [not Satanic Whim],
Than, a man should rejoice, in [Treasure Earned] of [Reborn] Works,
For who shall bring him to see, what shall be after him, (3:22
[Only, Reborn, in Emanuel/Jesus, enjoy works-gain, Treasure-Perks.]

AMEN
(Emphasis, bracketed, and paraphrase, mine //as//)